Best Laptop to go with Razer Core?

[LoveGamers]

What do you guys think?

[Synawke]

umm. razer blade?

[EunSoo]

The Razor Blade Stealth. Mostly for compatibility's sake. 

[Percenary]

Razer blade. So much eye candy, performance, small. But extremely overpriced. May or may not be worth it if you have the money. But who cares? Buy it

[LoveGamers]

1 minute ago, SCGazelle said:

The Razor Blade Stealth. Mostly for compatibility's sake. 

Worried out the Dual Core throttling the eGPU

 

1 minute ago, Percenary said:

Razer blade. So much eye candy, performance, small. But extremely overpriced. May or may not be worth it if you have the money. But who cares? Buy it

Lol

 

[EunSoo]

1 minute ago, LoveGamers said:

Worried out the Dual Core throttling the eGPU

 

For gaming, its fine.

[Mira Yurizaki]

9 minutes ago, LoveGamers said:

Worried out the Dual Core throttling the eGPU

Then get a Dell XPS 15 or similar.

[Pendragon]

55 minutes ago, SCGazelle said:

For gaming, its fine.

No its not.

 

57 minutes ago, LoveGamers said:

Worried out the Dual Core throttling the eGPU

 

It doesn't throttle it. It bottlenecks it. 

 

1 hour ago, LoveGamers said:

What do you guys think?

Anything with a 6820HQ+ and TB3 so:

Precision M5510

MSI GT Series

Alienwares

Clevos

 

Basically the better the CPU, the better it will work with eGPU. Getting it to work is a whole other story. Everything cept the Razer Blade that works natively needs workarounds, but once you get it to work, it'll be fine. 

 

Also Razer Core is not the best eGPU solution currently available. That goes to the Alienware Graphics Amplifier. 

[LoveGamers]

9 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

Anything with a 6820HQ+ and TB3 so:

Precision M5510

MSI GT Series

Alienwares

Clevos

 

Basically the better the CPU, the better it will work with eGPU. Getting it to work is a whole other story. Everything cept the Razer Blade that works natively needs workarounds, but once you get it to work, it'll be fine. 

 

Also Razer Core is not the best eGPU solution currently available. That goes to the Alienware Graphics Amplifier. 

 

What's 2nd best?

 

I'm trying to have a combo with thin and light and Gaming performance, and though Alienware makes the best graphics amp, all the compatible laptops are kind of heavy and bulky.

[Pendragon]

58 minutes ago, LoveGamers said:

What's 2nd best?

There's only 2. AW and TB3. Only TB3 enclosure currently available is the Razer Core with others haven't being released yet, so yes the Razer Core is second best)

 

59 minutes ago, LoveGamers said:

I'm trying to have a combo with thin and light and Gaming performance

 

59 minutes ago, LoveGamers said:

Precision M5510

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precision-M5510-15-6-FHD-i7-6820HQ-32GB-512GB-PCIe-SSD-M1000M-6Cell-wrty-/112202156389?hash=item1a1fc50965:g:d78AAOSwo4pYJwTj

[LoveGamers]

18 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

There's only 2. AW and TB3. Only TB3 enclosure currently available is the Razer Core with others haven't being released yet, so yes the Razer Core is second best)

 

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precision-M5510-15-6-FHD-i7-6820HQ-32GB-512GB-PCIe-SSD-M1000M-6Cell-wrty-/112202156389?hash=item1a1fc50965:g:d78AAOSwo4pYJwTj

 

 

You are a god 

 

Should I use this with the Razer Core or another eGPU?

[Pendragon]

11 minutes ago, LoveGamers said:

You are a god 

This is only for TB3 eGPU btw. The M1000M is NOT a good gaming GPU. @Eason85 has very indepth experience in Razer Coring the XPS15/Precison 5510 series. If you wish to pursue this route he's the guy to go to. 

[Eason85]

Performance wise, an i7-hq cpu is the way to go. The 6700 is getting a little long in the tooth, but it's still decent. A 6820hq/hk would be best. You'll get probably 90% percent of a desktop's performance using the core, though this will depend on the card.

 

My XPS 15 + 970 w/core was about 5-10% slower than my desktop with an i5-5500k (I think that was the chip. Next one above the 5400?). However, the better the gpu, the more the CPU and tb3 will bottleneck it. People with 1080s are seeing nowhere near the performance of regular desktop systems, depending on the benchmark/game. I'd go for a 1070 right now, no higher. 

 

The core itself- I think this is the only one actually being sold right now? It's ok, but it does have some issues with the magnets in the door not making a reliable connection and power cycling (stupid design; ask razer). Pretty soon akitio should have their node and powercolor their devilbox. 

 

Anyway, what i did was buy a core early, and now I use it with a shitty throttling skull canyon NUC until the kaby lake xps/precision comes out. Then I will jump on that.

[LoveGamers]

27 minutes ago, Eason85 said:

Performance wise, an i7-hq cpu is the way to go. The 6700 is getting a little long in the tooth, but it's still decent. A 6820hq/hk would be best. You'll get probably 90% percent of a desktop's performance using the core, though this will depend on the card.

 

My XPS 15 + 970 w/core was about 5-10% slower than my desktop with an i5-5500k (I think that was the chip. Next one above the 5400?). However, the better the gpu, the more the CPU and tb3 will bottleneck it. People with 1080s are seeing nowhere near the performance of regular desktop systems, depending on the benchmark/game. I'd go for a 1070 right now, no higher. 

 

The core itself- I think this is the only one actually being sold right now? It's ok, but it does have some issues with the magnets in the door not making a reliable connection and power cycling (stupid design; ask razer). Pretty soon akitio should have their node and powercolor their devilbox. 

 

Anyway, what i did was buy a core early, and now I use it with a shitty throttling skull canyon NUC until the kaby lake xps/precision comes out. Then I will jump on that.

 

Thanks for the input

 

do you recommend getting a Razer Core still or a different enclosure?

[Pendragon]

30 minutes ago, LoveGamers said:

or a different enclosure?

There is no enclosure available right now. Bizon Box is coming, so is Asus's thing and Devil's and Gigabyte's.

No details announced on any of them on release date.

[Eason85]

1 hour ago, LoveGamers said:

Thanks for the input

 

do you recommend getting a Razer Core still or a different enclosure?

If you want one now, get a core. I'd rather not give Razer my money, but if you want an eGPU on TB3 then that's all you have to choose from.

[Heartbreaker]

Thought I would chime in. I used a GS 40. 

 

I consistently posted better 3dMark Ultra scores with the GS40+Core+GTX1080 than the same set up with a Razer Blade. It is rather consistent and performs great with a 1440p ultrawide. 

 

Love the price to performance options in the GS series from MSI vs the Blades. Recently saw the GS72VR and it was a  Sweety. 

 

Played with the new MacBook Pro 15 inch this week. I know it will only perform basic gaming when traveling but so nice in the hands and if connects to the Core successfully then maybe that is a route t consider. I have read it works with the Core in Windows 10 boot camp. 

 

Any of the MSI G series will be a good choice in my opinion. 

[Pendragon]

5 hours ago, Heartbreaker said:

Thought I would chime in. I used a GS 40. 

Ohh. How'd you get around the MSI "superport" classification issue? Super cool that you did get around it by the way. All the MSI laptops I played with on the Maxwell generation labeled their bloody TB3 ports as superports. 

[Eason85]

4 hours ago, Pendragon said:

Ohh. How'd you get around the MSI "superport" classification issue? Super cool that you did get around it by the way. All the MSI laptops I played with on the Maxwell generation labeled their bloody TB3 ports as superports. 

Msi had their own BIOS update and firmware that changes it iirc. The older ones were "superport" but I do believe all recent releases are standard tb3

[Heartbreaker]

Yeah, there is a BIOS update to complete. MSI has a step by step to update port to TB3. Once I did that it set up like Razer laptop. 

 

 

[Pendragon]

24 minutes ago, Heartbreaker said:

Yeah, there is a BIOS update to complete. MSI has a step by step to update port to TB3. Once I did that it set up like Razer laptop. 

 

Interesting. I was playing around with it literally weeks after the core became public available, was a mess. Good thing msi fixed it. Also, ofc you pull higher scores than a Razer. Things a whole gap down (1070 to 1060) pull better scores than what Razer tries to put in them.